i’ll go first: our 17th prime minister one day vanished while swimming in the ocean and not only did none of his friends give a fuck, they started slapfighting immediately for who’s gonna be his successor. no joke they didn’t even let his body turn cold before the arguments began it was all so fucking funny.
Youre Australian? Didnt even have to click the link to know.
Im in the US. Where the fuck do i start? Criminalization of weed because of Mexicans and blacks? death of Fred Hampton? the puritans who left England and ‘found’ the US because the English werent puritanical enough, thus starting the whole fucking country we know currently?
Theres a lot.
that’s a fair point, most of american history is fuckin’ nuts. is there anything in american history that was both super stupid and super funny? edit: also yes i’m australian lol
Back in the 1960s, the us govt wanted to use something like 520 nuclear weapons to dig a canal alternative to the Suez through the Negev desert in Israel.
link to a declassified paper, but it goes to a US GOV website so beware
I dunno why but this is what popped into mind as super stupid but not necessarily super funny.
One time they decided to dispose of a bunch of nuclear waste off the east coast and when the barrels didn’t sink they had fighter planes strafe them.
We have also accidentally dropped several nuclear bombs on ourselves that luckily did not detonate.
President Garfield getting assassinated on a Monday is a good one.
George W. Bush choking on a pretzel
Zachary Taylor eating too many cherries on a warm day
William Henry Harrison trying to prove he wasn’t uneducated by writing a ridiculously long speech with ancient Roman references, all so he could give himself pneumonia
George Washington dying because too many doctors wanted to save him, so they all bled him with leeches and for some reason he kept getting weaker
I forgot about the Washington thing that’s a really good one lol
RIP to our driest president
The OG dryboi